Can you imagine an 8-foot-long millipede crawling across the forest floor? That’s the Arthropleura, a giant creepy-crawly that lived over 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period.

Structures in millipede secretions have been found to modulate specific neuroreceptors in ant brains. Millipedes get a bad rap — their many legs put people off and could classify them as ‘creepy ...

Millipedes, often dismissed as creepy crawlies, may hold the secret to future painkillers and neurological drugs. Researchers at Virginia Tech discovered unique alkaloid compounds in the defensive ...

Millipedes get a bad rap — their many legs put people off and could classify them as “creepy crawly.” But these anthropods’ secretions could hold the key to new drug discovery for the treatment of ...